Re. Duane Strosaker's recent writing about his border crossing from Imperial Beach to Tijuana: When Arthur Hebert and I paddled from South Padre Island in Texas across the Rio Grand (aka Rio Bravo del Norte depending on which side of the border you learned the name) to Baghdad Beach in Mexico we noticed a US Border Patrol truck driving along the beach and apparently following us. Since Rafael had driven us from South Padre to Mexican customs in Matamoros the day before and thus all our papers for the border crossing were in order, we got a kick out of the idea that we were eluding the border patrol, that is, that we were going to cross the border and there was nothing they could do about it (short of shoot us out of the water, - a possibility we figured most unlikely). When we actually crossed the river we saw the US border patrol flashing its truck lights over to the Mexican side and thought that was their way of signaling to the Mexicans that someone had crossed and would need official "attention". We were mildly disappointed later to learn that the flashing truck lights was not meant to alert the Mexicans to us renegades but, rather was a gesture of respect and acknowledgement of our expedition. Larry Koenig *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:11:16 -0500, Larry & Janell wrote: >Re. Duane Strosaker's recent writing about his border crossing from >Imperial Beach to Tijuana: When Arthur Hebert and I paddled from South >Padre Island in Texas across the Rio Grand... North of the border there is some lovely paddling in the 1000 Islands of the St. Lawrence River between Canada and the USA. One very pretty/narrow channel, perhaps used by rum-runners during Prohibition, literally takes one within a "stone's throw" of a Duty-Free shop (consider the irony). Within 20-30 feet in this channel one can see/touch US/Cdn boundary/survey markers. It is great fun to kayak back & forth across the border, which is something I very much appreciate... and the water/landscape is wonderful! -- cheers, Stephen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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